Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!yale!ox.com!mudos!mju From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: PCJOVE Questions (and a Re:) Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 90 22:55:17 GMT References: <15082@shlump.nac.dec.com> Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI Lines: 24 reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes: > In article <1990@nyx.UUCP>, cla@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson) writes... > > - BTW, "push-shell" is the way to run a DOS shell. I've bound it to F10. - > > Anyone know the difference between this and "pause-jove". They seem to do > the same thing to me. They do the same thing under MS-DOS. If you were running JOVE under a version of Unix with job control, though, they would do different things. Push-shell would just spawn another copy of your shell, and you would end up with your login shell, JOVE, and a new shell. Pause-jove would use job control commands to pause the JOVE process and return you to your login shell. The advantages of pause-jove include being able to restart JOVE in the background with "bg" and have it run while you're in the shell, and having non-exported variables, aliases, etc. available in the shell. I'm sure there are other advantages, but as I only use a machine with job control occassionally (my usual Unix machines are 386's and 486's running SCO Xenix and Unix), I don't know a whole lot about it. -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Angular momentum makes the world go 'round. ...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju |